@inproceedings{457ce561606648f2abc4fab96c962825,
title = "Fantasy gaming and virtual heritage",
abstract = "Virtual worlds are increasingly being developed to provide a navigable space for museum collections. The Virtual Sydney Rocks (VSR) [3] is one such virtual world that has been constructed as an authentic representation of the area of first European settlement in Australia 230 years ago - from a time just before its settlement until the present day. We constructed two versions of a game for children in order to motivate interaction with, and learning of, the historical content of the VSR. One of these game versions contained a number of fantasy design elements with the idea that their inclusion would motivate children to engage with VSR content in a pleasurable way. A preliminary study with a small number of school-aged children was not able to show that the inclusion of fantasy elements affected either the comprehension of historical facts or the quality of moral judgements made by the children. This study did, however, provide some evidence that interactivity with the relevant parts of the virtual world may have affected the retention of historical facts.",
keywords = "Centered computing, Human, Human computer interaction (HCI), Humancentered computingInteraction designEmpirical studies in interaction design, Interaction paradigms, Virtual reality",
author = "Wanqi Zhao and Kit Devine and Henry Gardner",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 IEEE.; 26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2019 ; Conference date: 23-03-2019 Through 27-03-2019",
year = "2019",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1109/VR.2019.8797715",
language = "English",
series = "26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2019 - Proceedings",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "1279--1280",
booktitle = "26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2019 - Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}